At the end of last year, the Japanese manufacturer brought the Honda Performance Development (HPD) arm under its global motorsport portfolio, renaming the division as Honda Racing Corporation US.This opened up the possibility of Honda taking its Acura ARX-06 across the Atlantic and competing at Le Mans, a race inContinue Reading
Cadillac will lead the field to the green flag on Sunday in America’s biggest sportscar classic of the season, which kicks off the 2024 IMSA SportsCar Championship.Action Express Racing’s Pipo Derani beat Chip Ganassi Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais to pole by smashing the track record for prototypes around the 3.56-mile roadContinue Reading
Drivers have different criteria they prioritise when it comes to choosing a favourite team-mate. For some, longevity is a crucial factor, as with time the relationship evolves naturally, while others relate most to drivers that they learned from.Erik Comas falls into the latter category. One race working alongside Jan LammersContinue Reading
The German manufacturer announced on Wednesday that Krohn will join Philipp Eng as a full-season driver in the RLL-run team’s #24 BMW M Hybrid V8 entry, while the sister #25 prototype will feature the same full-time line-up of Connor De Phillippi and Nick Yelloly.Krohn and Eng will be joined for theContinue Reading
Performance-wise, I was up there with the top Porsche GT drivers in IMSA every weekend in 2023. The team, AO Racing, was new, having only been formed in the winter of 2022, but did an amazing job to get the car to where it has been because the Balance ofContinue Reading
Ably assisted by his season-long team-mate Ben Barnicoat, Jack Hawksworth claimed the IMSA SportsCar Championship’s GTD Pro title in his fifth season with the factory-backed Vasser Sullivan Racing Lexus squad.Four class pole positions and two victories at Long Beach and Watkins Glen were the highlights. He finished on the podiumContinue Reading
On the face of it, Sebastien Bourdais didn’t have the kind of year to justify such a high ranking. There was only one win in the IMSA SportsCar Championship with the Ganassi Cadillac squad.But what might be described as a season of misfortune — the car he shared with Renger vanContinue Reading
A prolific winner in Mercedes GT3 cars on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond in 2023, Jules Gounon’s second straight GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup title capped a year in which he also claimed a third straight Bathurst 12 Hour win. Together with Dani Juncadella, he won more racesContinue Reading
On his GT3 Mercedes swansong, Marciello was nothing if not consistent. The only driver to qualify in the top three at every GT World Challenge Europe Sprint round earned a record-extending 14th series pole at Misano after his Brands Hatch masterclass.Key passes to win at Hockenheim emulated Marciello’s glorious fightbackContinue Reading
There’s a reason why James Calado doesn’t make it higher up the list. And it’s called Antonio Fuoco. The Italian was the stand-out driver in the Ferrari Hypercar line-up, and there were races when the gap he had on pace to his team-mates was significant.PLUS: Ranking the top 10 Hypercar driversContinue Reading